Pencil purse



Dec. 11 1923. 1,476,697

F. P. DWYER PENIL PURSE Filed 001;. ll. 1922 l I A ,9

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es era Waan FRANCIS P. DVYER, GFIPHILADLPHIA, PEITNSYLV..NI, ASSIGNOR TOTRAVELIGIIT EIIANUFACTURING CG., F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A,CORPOBATIO 0F rENNsYLvANIA.

PENCIL runen.' 1 i.

Applicationvled October 11, 1922.. Serial No. 593,713.,

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Be it known that I, llnANois l). Dwrnn, a citizen of the United Statesofy America, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of 6 Philadelphiaand State of Pennsylvania,

have invented `certa-inv new and useful Improvements in Pencil Purses,offwhich thev following isaspecification. Y v

My invention relates to new andnseful i 10 improvements in what I termpencil purses and has vfor an object to provide a pencil purse'whieh isneat in appearance, novel in structure, and relatively cheap toinanufac# ture. j 1 Still another object of the invention. is to providea pencil purse comprising a recepi tacle which is divided into twocomp-artments one of which is much greater in length than the other andwhich I term for the; purpose of description the pencil compartment andin which maybe carried pen holders, fountain pens, pencils, rulers, andother objects of a relative long nature; while in the shortercompartments which I also term for purpose of description, the coincompartment may be carried coins, car tokens, car tickets and otherobjects of a similar nature. i

Still another object of the invention is to providea flexible pencilpurse having two compartments, the bottom of one compartment forming thebottom of the other andY at the same time forming a flexible hinge sothat the coin compartment may be folded baclron thepencil compartmentand there l locked so that the pencil purse as a wholewill be relativelyshortened, and so that if the pencil purse is carried by one end, thecoin compartment will be held in an upright .0 position, thus preventingthe loss of any of the coins, should the same by any accidental mannerbecome opened, while, if the pencil purse is gripped by the coincompartment end, the hand will grasp the same and prevent the loss ofany of its contents.

l Still another object of the invention is to provide a pencil pursewhich is preferably made from two strips of leather, suede or othersimilar flexible material, both of which are of the same width andlength and to the ends of which are fastened frames which may be of aconventionalV nature, and7 after the frames have been fastened and thesides of the strips stitched together, a stitching opposite ends.

" is provided relatively near one end and eX- tends across the purseywhich formsthe two compartments,` theV one relatively long and theother relatively short, the-stitchingr also.

forming a A'fieri-lele hinge for the two com Y partments.

1 `With these and other objects in View, the 'invention consistsfincertain new and novel arrangements and 'combinationy of parts Vas willhereinafter beV more fully described and pointed'out in the'claims. v YReferring now to thedrawingashowing a referred embodiment of theinvention, n ig..l is a perspective of the pencil purse l with bothcompartments ,closed and the smaller or coin vcompartment folded back onthe pencilcompartment, Fig. 2 Vis a similarview but with bothcompartments being opened and the pencil puse in its elongatedlorunfolded position, an 1 Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of thesame showing bothof the compartments being open at'theirends.

Referring now more in detail to the drawings, showing a preferredembodiment of the invention, there is sho-wn a stripof flexible material1,1and a similar strip 2, which may be of cloth, leather, suede or otherlike material, .both of which strips are of the same length and widthand Yare stitched along their sides as ai; 3 Vto points ,nearthcir Thelength of these strips is much greater than their width, as will benoticed, and tol their opposite ends are clamped the conventional frames15 which have the snaps 6 formed'thereon.

After these strips have been sewed along their opposite edges and theframes applied thereto, a row of stitching 7 is formed which extendscompletely across the two strips joining the stitching 3 as'clearlyshown in the several figures. This stitching 7 divides the receptacle orpencil purse into the two compartments, the one l8, which I have termeda coin compartment and the other one 9 which I have termed the pencilcompartment. Furthermore, this stitching 7 by joining the two stripsalong this line forms a flexible hingeso that the coin compartment 8 may,be 'folded over on the pen-` cil'compartment ascle'arly shown in Fig.1; A stud 10 is then placed in the strip l andV Y an eyelet l1 is alsoplaced through the same Y ing across the body of said pencil'purse todivide the same into two compartments;and*V saidY stitching positionednearer onefend of, the body than thev other'so that one comstrip but inthe coin compartment so that when the coin compartment is 'foldedrearwardly it maybe locked to the pencil compartment without, in anyWay, interferingwith the clasps 6 ci? the coin compartment.

By thus providing the hinge 7, the purse' V is dividedl into twocompartments, the stitching forming Athe bottom for Veach compartmentand also forming a llexible hinge. The

Vcoin compartmentmay then 'be locked to the remainder of theY pencilpurse which thereby vshortens thepencil purseand makes it 'some-Vwhat'ceasier or more hand'ily'carried and YatY the end of the pencilcompartment.V l3`ur thermore, ii'f tli'e'pencil purse is carried byschool Y children, their bookstrap imay be,

placed between the Vstud andeyelet and the j co'inl'compartment thenlockedfto the pencil compartment making it impossible, then, `tor i theloss of the entire pencil purse.

y 1. A pencil purse comprising a rectangular brody'formed of flexiblematerialV and open at A Y lFrom the foregoing it will be'seen thatl 4 Ythe invention is one which is extremely simpleiin construction, Vitnecessitating -Y in its manufactureV simply the formation of tWo Y o'strips Y'ofthe sainesize, stitchin'g' the same alongtheir edges, theaddition of the frames, one row of stitching extending across the stripandthe insertion ofthe stud and Y eyelet.

'I' am aware Yflexible pencil carriers or receptacles have beenpreviously made 35 and I do not claim the same broadly as siich, butAwhat l do claim LettersV Patent is 'L- its opposite ends, a row ofstitching extendpartmentrwill be relatively longer than the other,locking means comprising frames'secured totheonter ends of said bodyforrre- Y ,i

peatedly closingand locking thesaid com-V two compartments, said vrow"of stitching beingarranged relatively near one l.end o'r said body to:form-two compartments, one of which is greater in length than the'other,

said stitchingforming the'bottom of each compartment and forming aflexiblehinge for the smaller Acompartnient so that'lt may be foldedbacken the large compartment,

means for attachingand detach-ing :the tivo compartments to each other,V'and means Vfor lockin andunlockinnthe ooenins of'each g .n v ,1:V l.

compartment.

A encil urse com irisiiify ja" rectan'vfu` 7H lar body formed of ltwostrips of flexible inaterial each Ybeing of"V thesame length 4and fterial topoints: nea-r their opposite ends',

Vwidth as Itheother, a Yrow of stitching ex- Y. tending along theopposite edges of said n1a posite ends,a row of vstitching extendingVacross theY body, and joining the' stitching along the edges of'saidbody, thus dividing V the body intovtwo compartments `and said'stitching placed nearer one HVendVY thanVY theV lother to form arelatively 'long' and a relay Y Y n f tively short; compartment,saidirow of stitch-Yv and desire Vto securebyV ingv forming the bottomof each compartment Y Y and also forming a. lexible hinge so that the i`shorter compartment may be folded back to the longer compartment, andmeans orloc'king the two compartments in saidlposition` the clamps atthe opposite endsV ofthe body',

nfestmony whereof IVaHiX my Signatur@

